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A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning
Bill Gates
The only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very very hard.
Helen Gurley Brown
Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating
Jim Carrey
Indecision and delays are the parents of failure
George Canning
Courage is the enforcing virtue, the one that makes possible all the other virtues common to exceptional leaders: honesty, integrity, confidence, compassion, and humility.
John McCain
A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.
Sir Francis Bacon
The key to success is for you to make a habit throughout your life of doing the things you fear.
Vincent Van Gogh
There ain't no rules around here. We're trying to accomplish something.
Thomas Edison
If you rest, you rust.
Helen Hayes
Quality is not an act. It is a habit.
Aristotle
Kites rise highest against the wind -- not with it.
Sir Winston Churchill
In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves... the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
Eleanor Roosevelt
It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
John Baptiste MoliƩre
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
Milton Berle
Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
Henry Ford
There was never a person who did anything worth doing that did not receive more than he gave.
Henry Ward Beecher
Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.
Mary Tyler Moore
There is no such thing as a great talent without great willpower.
Honore de Balzac
Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
Sallust
Man's mind, stretched to a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
They can because they think they can.
Virgil
You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
Ray Bradbury
If you want to achieve widespread impact and lasting value, be bold.
Howard Schultz
A wise man turns chance into good fortune.
Thomas Fuller
Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed.
Corita Kent
If you work just for the money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.
Ray Kroc
Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience.
Elbert Hubbard
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
Margaret Thatcher
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Michael Jordan
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the things you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt
We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
William Shakespeare
The future is no more uncertain than the present
Walt Whitman
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Sir Winston Churchill
The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first.
Ginger Rogers
The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
Thomas J. Watson
How you spend your time defines who you are.
Oprah Winfrey
The task of a leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
Henry Kissinger
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
B.C. Forbes
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't.
Martin Van Buren
I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
George Bernard Shaw
The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
Chinese proverb
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
Peter Drucker
I like thinking big... if you're going to be thinking anyway, you might as well think big.
Donald Trump
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
Benjamin Disraeli
Experience is not what happens to a man, it is what a man does with what happens to him."
Aldous Huxley
Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged by only one thing -- the result.
Vince Lombardi
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Will Rogers
Kites rise highest against the wind -- not with it.
Sir Winston Churchill
We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
Eric Hoffer
The only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very very hard.
Helen Gurley Brown
My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
Oprah Winfrey
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Carl Jung
We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
Eric Hoffer
The meaning of a communication is the result you get.
R. Bandler
Do or do not, there is no try.
Yoda
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done by hesitation.
Thomas Henry Huxley
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
Warren Buffett
Luck? I've never banked on it... Luck to me is something else: hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
Lucille Ball
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
Sun Tzu
Ambition is the last refuge of failure.
Oscar Wilde
Vengence is a lazy form of grief.
The Interpreter
The meaning of a communication is the result you get.
R. Bandler
Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.
Louis D. Brandeis
The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it.
Andre Maurois
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
Isaac Asimov
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Albert Einstein
Today is a new day. You will get out of it just what you put into it...
Mary Pickford
You don't do things right once in a while. You do them right all the time.
Vince Lombardi
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it's a matter of choice; it's not a thing to be waited for, but a thing to be achieved.
William Jennings Bryan
Failure is only an opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Henry Ford
Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively.
Eleanor Roosevelt
He who overcomes others has force; he who overcomes himself is strong.
Lao Tzu
Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.
Winston Churchill
Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.
Edward Eggleston
If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
Thomas Edison
Optimism is essential.
Jeff Bezos
Worry about being better; bigger will take care of itself.
Gary Comer
All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it--walk.
Ayn Rand
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
George Bernard Shaw
It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
W. Somerset Maugham
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.
John Ruskin
There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.
Paulo Coelho
Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free-- and worth a fortune.
Sam Walton
The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
Charles Du Bos
Errors and mistakes are the necessary steps in the learning process; once they have served their purpose, they should be forgotten.
Vince Lombardi
None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
General H. Norman Schwarzkopf
For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.
Johann Goethe
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
Warren Buffett
Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
Sarah Bernhardt
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Henry Ford
Today is a new day. You will get out of it just what you put into it...
Mary Pickford
It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
John Steinbeck
I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It's seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future.
Howard Schultz
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson